Android Market features Evernote's multi-platform note-taker at last
Evernote, a popular digital note-taking device that claims to capture just about anything you need to remember, has been
released to the Android Market. After multiple months of development (and only one month after Evernote raised a $10 million Series B), the productivity assistant is now available for free in Google's mobile market.
An iPhone version of Evernote has been available since August and the BlackBerry Evernote goes as far back as May, so Evernote's move to Android signals healthy expansion for both the app creator and Google's young app store.
Coincidentally, Google announced yesterday that the Android Market has hit the
16,000-apps milestone, a fitting feat for an app store often compared against the 100,000-apps behemoth that is Apple's App Store.
For the uninitiated, Evernote wants to be the ultimate note-taking application. Audio clips, photos, screenshots, text notes, Web pages--whatever you might want documented or recorded, can be. And Evernote stores it all in one place. In Evernote's app, all saved documents of all file types are organized and made searchable instantly. The app even promises to make handwritten text in images findable via text search.
Taking advantage of Android's location features, Evernote can also save location data along with notes, if so desired.
Free users get access to a 40MB monthly upload allowance, have certain files limited under synchronization to Evernote, and see promotions and advertising, while premium members, who pay $5/month or $45/year, receive a 500MB monthly upload allowance, no restrictions on file types, and see no advertising whatsoever.
Expect to see more updates for this app after a few months of further development.
Steven Loeb
